Interview with William J. Ealy, Louisville newspaperman and political activist. This interview was conducted on August 5 and 22, 1977 by Dwayne Cox of the University of Louisville Oral History Center. Mr. Ealy discusses his early life and education...

Immigrants--Kentucky--Louisville; Louisville--History; Italians--United States--History--20th century; St. James Catholic School (Louisville, Ky.); St. Xavier High School (Louisville, Ky.); Catholics; Catholics--Education; University of Notre Dame;...

Congressman Romano L. (Ron) Mazzoli, interviewed by Kevin Collins on May 14, 2010 as part of the Romano L. Mazzoli oral history project. This is the first of 17 interviews conducted with the Congressman, who represented the Third District of...

Horatio W. Bruce was born in 1830 in Lewis County, Kentucky. He attended school in Lewis County and in Manchester, Ohio, and worked as a salesman and bookkeeper at a general store in Vanceburg, Kentucky. In 1850, he went to Flemingsburg, Kentucky,...

Law and legislation--Kentucky; Law and legislation--Virginia; Constitutions--Kentucky; Constitutions--Virginia; Portraits; Lawyers; Judges; Legislators

Drawing on the varied collections of the Law Library, the initial offering of this digital collection features rare volumes of early Kentucky law books: William Littell's Statutes of Kentucky, which compile all the legal enactments relating to...

Emmet Field was born in Louisville in 1841. He was educated in Missouri, at Westminster College, and served in the 2d Missouri Cavalry of the Confederate army. He returned to Louisville in 1864, and the next year graduated from the law department...

Willis Overton Harris was born in 1847 in Powhatan County, Virginia. He entered Virginia Military Institute in 1863 and fought in the Civil War with VMI cadet corps until wars end, receiving an honorary degree in 1867. He attended University of...

Born in 1790 in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, George Robertson attended Transylvania University until 1806 and was admitted to the bar in 1809. He served in the U.S. Congress from 1817 to 1821 and in Kentucky's legislature from 1822 to 1827, in 1848, and...

William Walter Cleary was born in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1831. He was an 1849 graduate of Transylvania University and in 1849, graduated from its law department with honors. In 1852, he was admitted to the bar and settled in Cynthiana, Kentucky....

Franklin Wyatt Darby was born in 1837 in Caldwell County. He was educated in Cumberland College in Princeton, Kentucky, and read law under E.P. Caldwell. He was admitted to the bar in 1862. In 1866, he was elected county judge in Caldwell County....

Milton Jamison Durham was born in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1824. He was brought up on his father's farm, and entered Asbury University, Greencastle, Ind., graduating in 1844. He read law with the late Joshua F. Bell of Danville and in 1850...

Humphrey Marshall was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, in 1760. A soldier in the Virginia Revolutionary forces, he later moved to Kentucky in 1782 where he was admitted to the bar in Fayette County. He was a member of Kentucky House of...

Belvard J. Peters was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, November 3, 1805. He attended Buck Pond Academy, in Woodford County, then Transylvania University, where he graduated in 1825. He read law under Chief Justice John Boyle, received a license...

John W. Barr was born in Versailles, Kentucky, in 1826. He prepared for the bar at Transylvania University at Lexington, graduating in 1847. He started a law office in Versailles, but later relocated to Louisville where he soon established a...

William LeRoy Dulaney was born in York, Ill., in 1838. He attended Centre College, graduating in1857. He read law under Judge W.V. Loving and was admitted to the bar in 1860. He served as city attorney of Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1860 but joined...

John Dorsey Atchison was born in 1852 in Daviess County, Kentucky. He attended the Oakland Seminary and West Kentucky College. He read law with W. N. Sweeney and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He served as Daviess County School Commissioner from...

Born in 1819 in Shelby County, Kentucky, Bland Ballard attended Hanover College and the Law Department of Transylvania University where he received an L.L.B in 1846. He read law under James T. Morehead. In 1846, he married Sarah McDowell, daughter...

Wilbur Fisk Browder was born in Clarksville, Tenn., in 1848, but was chiefly reared in Montgomery, Ala. When sixteen years old, he entered the Randolph Macon College, of Virginia, attending one year, before transferring to the University of...

Andrew McDonnell January Cochran was born in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1854. He attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, where he graduated in 1873. He then pursued his law studies at Harvard University, where he graduated LL.B. in 1877. He was...

James Flanagan was born around 1821 in Clark County. He was licensed to practice law in 1857. In his career, he served as city attorney for Winchester, Kentucky, county attorney for Clark County and represented the area in the Kentucky legislature....